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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
King C. Gillette

King Camp Gillette was an American businessman. He invented a best-selling version of the safety razor. Gillette's innovation was the thin, inexpensive, disposable blade of stamped steel. Gillette is often erroneously credited with inventing the so-called razor and blades business model in which razors are sold cheaply to increase the market for blades. However, Gillette Safety Razor Company adopted the business model from its competitors.

January 5, 1855 - July 9, 1932
A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached. — © King C. Gillette
A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.
A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.
There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.
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